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U2 have been teasing Songs Of Experience , the follow-up to 2014's Songs Of Innocence , basically from the moment they forced Innocence onto every iPhone in the world . The album's blown past a few tentative release dates over the years, and at the beginning of this year the band announced they were retooling it to address Donald Trump's presidency.

"Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark": Tony Award-winning director Julie Taymor is teaming up with Bono and The Edge of the U2 to bring the tale of your friendly neighborhood web slinger to the stage. Previews begin at the Hilton Theatre Jan. 16, 2010.

Finalizing this year's Curran Apple Orchard Summer Concert Series at University Place is a local U2 tribute band that promises to grab hold, kiss and thrill you on Thursday, Aug. 17 from 6:30-8 p.m. U253 is a high energy rock band that sings many rhyming lyrics like: "Dressing like your sister, living like a tart, they don't know what you're doing, babe, it must be art." "We are thrilled about playing in our own back yard," said Erik O'Neil who plays lead guitar, keyboard and sings.

Liam Gallagher's 'For What It's Worth' is his "apology to all of the people he's p****d" off". The 44-year-old rocker unveiled the song on 'The Chris Evans Breakfast Show' on BBC Radio Two on Thursday morning and it was met with great appraisal from fans with floods texting into the UK station after it was played.

Before Jimmy Iovine was basically printing money as CEO of the hit-making Interscope Records, he was a 19-year-old college dropout. Before Dr. Dre made a hit out of claiming the world forgot about him , he was DJ'ing in silk doctor smocks that could pass as pajamas.

International concert and recording artist Maxine Linehan returns to Broadway's supper club Feinstein's/54 Below with her show ONE: The Songs of U2, at 9.30pm for four performances only - Friday, September 15, Friday, October 13, Saturday, November 4, and Saturday, December 9. "Fresh from witnessing U2 on their The Joshua Tree anniversary tour, I am reinvigorated and thrilled to continue exploring their world-famous songbook with audiences at Feinstein's/54 Below," said Linehan. "Their live performances have inspired me, and millions more around the world.

The energetic U.K. pop-rockers delivered a dazzling display before 50,000 fans as part of their Head Full of Dreams tour, which is making a second round of stops in the states after its first visit to MetLife in 2016. From go this was more than just a concert - it was a unifying event; the pervasive symbols of love and rainbows were visually spectacular and, combined with an impressive vocal performance, it made for a complete experience.

For the second time in the space of a month, Liam Gallagher has opened fire on one of the biggest bands on the planet - and he's not one to pull his punches. In a US radio interview promoting his solo album As You Were , the former Oasis frontman heaped scorn upon U2, saying the Irish rockers "haven't done anything rock 'n' roll in their entire life".

Alice Cooper has said that inviting U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr to perform on his new album 'Paranormal' really 'gave the record a different flavour', due to his technique of interpreting the lyrics. Watch our video interview with Cooper above.

Throughout the lead-up to the release of a new LP, "Everything Now," the band has drawn the ire of fans and foes alike with parodies of fake news sites, mock-ups of music websites and a pretend corporation supposedly controlling promotional content such as a . This is all part of what's meant to be ironic commentary on modern society and how the line between art and commerce has blurred, although the campaign has mostly led to confusion and cynicism.

Arcade Fire didn't come here to make friends. That much is evident from the fact that fifth album Everything Now starts with a friggin' reprise of its title track -- titled "Everything_Now " -- which leads directly into the full "Everything Now."

Alice Cooper 's latest studio album, Paranormal , gets its release today, July 28. The shock rocker enlisted some big-name rockers to play on the 12-track collection -- U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. , ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons and Deep Purple bassist Roger Glover . In addition, Cooper reunited with the three other surviving members of his original Alice Cooper Band -- bassist Dennis Dunaway , drummer Neal Smith and guitarist Michael Bruce -- to write and record two tracks, which appear on a bonus disc packaged with the album.

This is the question being presented in a lawsuit pending in the Southern District of New York against the iconic band U2 and a majority of its band mates. Paul David Hewson , David Howell Evans , drummer Laurence Joseph Mullen Jr., and bassist Adam Clayton were all named as defendants in the Amended Complaint filed by British recording artist Paul Rose in June of this year.

Based on what we've read about their tours and what we know about these acts on the whole, here is our take on which of the Twin Cities' five big stadium gigs deserve your hard-earned money the most. For what it's worth, the flaky Justin Bieber definitely would have been at the bottom of this list, so maybe he was wise to cancel his Aug. 18 show at U.S. Bank Stadium.

U2 's ongoing The Joshua Tree 30th anniversary tour made its way today to Paris' Stade De France, where the audience got a surprise. Legend Patti Smith showed up to perform "Mothers of the Disappeared," The Joshua Tree 's closer.